Characteristics of tropopause parameters as observed with GPS radio occultation

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3947-3958

  Rieckh, T ^a   Scherllin Pirscher, B ^a   Ladstadter F ^a   Foelsche, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GPS; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; TROPOPAUSE;

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EID: 84913556039     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-7-3947-2014     Document Type: Article

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